I love Mick Jagger, and I want him to play guitar, but I don’t want to see him play guitar. But when Keith goes over to the microphone and does a song, halfway through the place clears out and goes to the bar to get a drink. Everyone’s looking at Mick Jagger, but really everyone loves Keith Richards because Keith’s the guitar player. Generally, the singer is one thing – the Rolling Stones are a great example. “I think rock bands are all about electric guitars,” she says now, when that line is put to her again. “My position in any band that I’ve been in is to set the guitar player up to make a goal.” “I’m not a solo artist,” she told Rolling Stone last year. The band’s debut LP, released as 1979 ticked over into 1980, laid out her philosophy: the collective is stronger than the individual, and any great song is a team sport.
She is a pragmatist who is also devoted to the ineffable power of music, its influence bleeding beyond the borders of her teenage AM radio obsession and into a gnawing need to lead a band and answer in her own indelible voice.įor the past 40 years the Pretenders’ music has been a fixture in a lot of lives, with Hynde’s punked-up take on classic rock belting from speakers, lip curled. Chrissie Hynde’s career has always been about rough and smooth: gut-check attitude versus rock ’n’ roll romanticism.
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